svn commit: r49613 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 31 03:55:45 UTC 2016


Author: bjk
Date: Mon Oct 31 03:55:44 2016
New Revision: 49613
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49613

Log:
  Make an editing pass through the 2016Q3 report
  
  Remove empty categories, and try to standardize on markup and capitalization
  for certain classes of things.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Sun Oct 30 09:50:53 2016	(r49612)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Oct 31 03:55:44 2016	(r49613)
@@ -66,12 +66,6 @@
   </category>
 
   <category>
-    <name>bin</name>
-
-    <description>Userland Programs</description>
-  </category>
-
-  <category>
     <name>ports</name>
 
     <description>Ports</description>
@@ -83,12 +77,6 @@
     <description>Documentation</description>
   </category>
 
-  <category>
-    <name>misc</name>
-
-    <description>Miscellaneous</description>
-  </category>
-
   <project cat='proj'>
     <title>ClonOS: New &os;-Based Free/Open Hosting Platform</title>
 
@@ -144,7 +132,7 @@
     <help>
       <task>We would like to see ClonOS in real-world use.  In this
 	regard we are interested in finding more people and companies
-	who used &os; in hosting tasks.  In addition, it could be
+	that use &os; in hosting tasks.  In addition, it could be
 	great to work with the developers of existing NAS solutions
 	(zfsGuru, NAS4Free).
       </task>
@@ -272,7 +260,7 @@
     <help>
       <task>Play around with CloudABI and let us know what you think
 	of it!  Full support for amd64 and arm64 is part of &os; 11.0.
-	i686 and armv6 support is only available on HEAD, but will be
+	i686 and armv6 support is only available on head, but will be
 	merged to the stable/11 branch in the future.</task>
 
       <task>Interested in Python programming? Give our copy of Python
@@ -616,8 +604,8 @@
     <help>
       <task>I need more examples of rare Linux Audit logs; please send
 	me some examples if you have any.  It is much easier to
-	improve the conversion process with real-life examples of the
-	audit events you try to convert.</task>
+	improve the conversion process with real-life examples of
+	audit events as you write the code to convert them.</task>
 
       <task>Configure <tt>auditdistd</tt> to be able to communicate
 	with some software on CentOS over TLS in order to receive
@@ -643,7 +631,7 @@
     </contact>
 
     <body>
-      <p>Non-Transparent Bridges allow creation of memory windows
+      <p>Non-Transparent Bridges allow the creation of memory windows
 	between different systems using the regular PCIe links of CPUs
 	as a transport.  During the last quarter, the NTB subsystem
 	gained a significant set of improvements and fixes:</p>
@@ -674,7 +662,7 @@
     </body>
 
     <sponsor>
-      The project is sponsored by iXsystems, Inc.
+      iXsystems, Inc.
     </sponsor>
 
     <help>
@@ -714,20 +702,20 @@
 
     <body>
       <p>The ZFS code base in &os; regularly gets merges of new code,
-	staying in sync with latest OpenZFS/Illumos sources.  Among
+	staying in sync with the latest OpenZFS/Illumos sources.  Among
 	other things, the latest merge included the following
 	improvements:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li>The ARC now mostly stores compressed data, the same as is
-	  stored on disks, decompressing them on demand.</li>
+	  stored on disk, decompressing them on demand.</li>
 
-	<li>The L2ARC now stores the same (compressed) data as ARC
+	<li>The L2ARC now stores the same (compressed) data as the ARC
 	  without recompression, and its RAM usage was further
 	  reduced.</li>
 
 	<li>The largest size of indirect block possible has been
-	  increased from 16KB fo 128KB, and speculative prefetching of
+	  increased from 16KB to 128KB, and speculative prefetching of
 	  indirect blocks is now performed.</li>
 
 	<li>Improved ordering of space allocation.</li>
@@ -913,13 +901,13 @@
 	ARM CPUs, developed by Annapurna Labs.</p>
 
       <p>The primary focus areas of the Alpine platform are
-	high-performance networking, storage and embedded
+	high-performance networking, storage, and embedded
 	applications.  The network subsystem features 10-, 25-, and
 	50-Gbit Ethernet controllers with support for virtualization,
 	load-balancing, hardware offload and other advanced
 	features.</p>
 
-      <p>A basic patch set has already been committed to HEAD
+      <p>A basic patch set has already been committed to head
 	including:</p>
 
       <ul>
@@ -988,7 +976,7 @@
 	which version a utility originated in, despite our common
 	heritage.</p>
 
-      <p>I began with working through the man pages in &os;, verifying
+      <p>I began working through the man pages in &os;, verifying
 	the details in pages which already had a history section and
 	making patches for those which did not.</p>
 
@@ -1061,7 +1049,7 @@
 	such functionality to the VirtualBox Guest Additions
 	driver.</p>
 
-      <p>Good progress was made over last few months.  Developers were
+      <p>Good progress was made over the last few months.  Developers were
 	able to mount a filesystem in read-only mode and, with some
 	limitations, in read-write mode.  The implementation still
 	lacks some critical pieces, but the roadmap is clear.</p>
@@ -1113,7 +1101,7 @@
       <p><tt>evdev</tt> support was started by Jakub Klama as a Google
 	SoC 2014 project, and later picked up and finished by Vladimir
 	Kondratiev.  General API and <tt>evdev</tt> support bits for
-	<tt>ukbd</tt> and <tt>ums</tt> were committed to HEAD.
+	<tt>ukbd</tt> and <tt>ums</tt> were committed to head.
 	Support was also added for TI's AM33xx touchstreen controller
 	(the popular BeagleBone is based on the AM33xx) and the
 	official touschreen for the Raspberry Pi.  Multitouch support
@@ -1183,10 +1171,10 @@
 
       <p>Pine64 support has been committed to head.  &os; can now boot
 	to multiuser with SMP enabled.  This includes support for
-	clocks, the secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs,
-	non-maskable interrupts, the AXP81x power management unit, cpu
+	clocks, secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs,
+	non-maskable interrupts, AXP81x power management unit, cpu
 	freqency and voltage scaling, MMC, UART, gigabit networking,
-	the watchdog, and the thermal sensors.</p>
+	watchdog, and thermal sensors.</p>
     </body>
 
     <sponsor>
@@ -1345,9 +1333,11 @@
 
       <p>The item that has absorbed the largest portion of Core's
 	attention this quarter concerns the project's handling of
-	security vulnerabilities in bspatch(1), libarchive(3),
-	FreeBSD-update(8) and portsnap(8).  A partial fix was applied
-	in &os;-SA-16:25.bspatch but this lacks fixes to libarchive
+	security vulnerabilities in <tt>bspatch(1)</tt>,
+	<tt>libarchive(3)</tt>,
+	<tt>freebsd-update(8)</tt> and <tt>portsnap(8)</tt>.
+	A partial fix was applied
+	in &os;-SA-16:25.bspatch but this lacks fixes to <tt>libarchive</tt>
 	code that were not yet available from upstream.</p>
 
       <p>SecTeam receives privileged early reports of many
@@ -1356,11 +1346,11 @@
 	published.  Early access to information about vulnerabilities
 	is contingent on their ability to avoid premature disclosure,
 	and without such, they could not have security advisories and
-	patches ready to go immediately when the vulnerability is
+	patches ready to go immediately when a vulnerability is
 	published.</p>
 
       <p>However, in this case, vulnerabilities were already public
-	and the lack of any official response from the &os; project
+	and the lack of any official response from the &os; Project
 	was leading to concern amongst users and some critical press
 	coverage.  Core stepped in and published a statement
 	clarifying the situation and the particular difficulties
@@ -1489,7 +1479,7 @@
 	while the loader is effectively still in control.  In
 	technical terms, the <tt>SetVirtualAddressMap()</tt> call must
 	be made with the 1:1 physical:virtual mapping on amd64
-	systems, which for &os; means that the call can be only issued
+	systems, which for &os; means that the call can only be issued
 	by the loader.  But the loader needs to know intimate details
 	of the kernel address map to provide the requested
 	information.  This creates a new, unfortunate, coupling
@@ -1532,12 +1522,12 @@
 	coded and the kernel interface to access runtime services is
 	based on it.</p>
 
-      <p>During the development, particularly when trying to make
+      <p>During development, particularly when trying to make
 	the loader modifications, it was quickly realized that there
 	were no fault-reporting facilities in <tt>loader.efi</tt>.
 	Machine exceptions resulted in a silent hang.  Curiosly, in
 	such a situation the Intel firmware outputs the error code
-	over the serial port on 115200/8/1 settings, regardless of
+	over the serial port over 115200/8/1 settings, regardless of
 	UEFI console configuration, which was discovered by accident.
 	Unfortunately, the error code alone is not enough to diagnose
 	most problems.</p>
@@ -1547,7 +1537,7 @@
 	the firmware IDT and dumps the machine state to the loader
 	console.  Due to the complexity of the interception and
 	possible bugs which might do more harm than good there, the
-	dumper is only activated with explicit administrator
+	dumper is only activated on explicit administrator
 	action.</p>
 
       <p>Note that the described work only provides the kernel
@@ -1653,7 +1643,7 @@
 	branch.  This branch should be used for <tt>radeon</tt> and
 	<tt>amdgpu</tt> cards.  The <tt>drm-next-4.7</tt> branch
 	should be used for <tt>i915</tt> cards due to instabilities
-	in the <tt>intel</tt> driver in <tt>drm-next</tt> branch.</p>
+	in the <tt>intel</tt> driver in the <tt>drm-next</tt> branch.</p>
 
       <p>Johannes Lundberg has been working on getting the Wayland
 	environment running on &os;.  The Wayland ports are in
@@ -1715,7 +1705,7 @@
 	November.  As you can see, we need your donations to
 	continue supporting &os; at our current level.  Please
 	consider making a donation at <a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
 
       <p>OS Improvements</p>
 
@@ -1733,7 +1723,7 @@
 
       <ul>
 	<li>Provided kernel support for EFI Runtime Services
-	  calls.</li>
+	  calls</li>
 
 	<li>Implemented <tt>getttimeofday(2)</tt> purely in userspace
 	  for HPET timers</li>
@@ -1804,7 +1794,7 @@
       <p>As part of the Cluster Administration team, Glen worked with
 	the amazing on-site staff at NYI to rack and install two
 	Cavium ThunderX machines, one of which is used for native
-	package builds for the &os;/aarch64 architecture, and the
+	package builds for the &os;/arm64 architecture, and the
 	other of which is targeted to be used as a reference machine
 	in the &os; infrastructure.</p>
 
@@ -1819,7 +1809,7 @@
 	and Brad Davis to improve the new user information on
 	FreeBSD.org to make it easier for new people to get started
 	with &os;.  You can find his how-to guides at <a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/</a>
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/</a>
 	and check out his interview on BSDNow at <a
 	  href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience">http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience</a>.</p>
 
@@ -1842,18 +1832,18 @@
 	tables, and give &os; presentations.</p>
 
       <p>We created new handouts to promote TeachBSD.org (<a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf</a>)
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf</a>)
 	and the Google Summer of Code program (<a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf</a>).</p>
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf</a>).</p>
 
       <p>We published the July/August issue of the &os; Journal: <a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/</a>.</p>
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/</a>.</p>
 
       <p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being
 	done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and
-	other information to keep you in the loop of what we’re doing
+	provide other information to keep you in the loop of what we’re doing
 	to support the &os; Project and community <a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/</a>.</p>
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/</a>.</p>
 
       <p>Conferences and Events</p>
 
@@ -1959,7 +1949,7 @@
       <p>We welcomed Kylie Liang and Philip Paeps to the Board of
 	Directors.  More information and interviews can be found at:
 	<a
-	  href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/</a>.</p>
+	  href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/</a>.</p>
 
       <p>George attended the ARM Partner Meeting in Cambridge.</p>
     </body>
@@ -2025,7 +2015,7 @@
 	applying Capsicum.  First, there are a number of common
 	constructs shared by many simple programs, such as limiting
 	capability rights on the stdio file descriptors.  To address
-	this, a set of capsicum helper routines have been added for
+	this, a set of capsicum helper routines has been added for
 	these common cases.</p>
 
       <p>Second, a common challenge occurs where applications need
@@ -2060,9 +2050,9 @@
 
 	<li><tt>brandelf</tt></li>
 
-	<li>dma-mbox-create</li>
+	<li><tt>dma-mbox-create</tt></li>
 
-	<li>elf2aout</li>
+	<li><tt>elf2aout</tt></li>
 
 	<li><tt>file</tt></li>
 


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